Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women's employment in post-war Britain. A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of...

The aim of this contribution to the debates section is to raise some research and policy questions about childcare which has become a key policy issue for the British Government. Childcare currently is a central plank of both the economic efficiency and the social exclusion agenda, as...

The current distribution of paid work and caring work is inequitable. Some people are combining very long hours of paid work with caring responsibilities, while others with no caring responsibilities are also excluded from paid work. Nancy Fraser's (1996) concept of gender equity, is drawn upon...